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Trends.
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- 01.
AI and LLMs: How They Reshape Developer Relations
The single most disruptive shift in DevRel since the discipline professionalised. Within a window of less than three years (late 2022 through 2026), AI changed how developers discover products, learn technologies, evaluate options, consu…
- 02.
Product-Led Growth and Developer Relations
The single most important strategic shift for DevRel in the 2020s. In a product-led growth (PLG) model, developers adopt the product before they ever talk to sales. The conversion happens inside the product, driven by the quality of the…
- 03.
The Developer Experience Movement
A discipline that did not exist as such in 2015 has, by 2026, produced its own VP-level org roles, its own measurement frameworks, its own conferences, and its own multi-billion-dollar tooling category. Developer Experience (DX, DevEx) s…
- 04.
Layoffs and Renaissance
Three durable observations:
- 05.
Future Directions
A speculative file, intentionally less data-driven than the rest of this almanac. What follows is the author's best read of where the field is heading, why, and what to watch.